Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-01
GRANBURY.
A View OF the Town and the Country
Tributary TO It-4Il the Ingredients
to Make q City.
What School, College ard "a Railroad
are Doing for the TOWN. Home for
the Immigrants.
GRANnuRY, TEX. June p, 1857

GRANBURY, TEX, June 2S 1887.
To the Editor of the Gazette.
The cheerful and animated spirit o.
TIE GAZETTE stirs me as Of old, and al.
though l am near fifty miles from my ole
battle ground, the bugIe blast ofprogress
rs sounded every morn in Fort Worth, by
its mighty champion, reaches US on the
banks of the wrathful Brazos, and stirs
the denIzens Of its valley with new hope
and life. Especially does the whistle OF
the locomotive arouse to life the hitherto
sleeping resources Of GranburY and Vi
entity, which will ere long spring forth
with magiClike growth rs one of the mu-
niCipal phenomena Of Texas, How can
it help but become wonder? Come
with me to the three story college build
ing, which is situated upon O high hill
Just north of the public square, amid q
cluster Of live osks. Now cast your eye
north and up the Brazos valley. Here are
farms and ranches, and wheat fields and
orchards aud beautiful homes, surrounded
by a valley unsurpassed in Texas or any
where else for fertility, abounding in
water of the best quality fer man and
beast, and dotted here and there with
schOoIhCuses and churches. To the
northwest Of Granbury some three miles
is ThOrp'S Springs, with two colleges,
which together with the one at Gran
bury, have made this the Athens
of Texas, and the three have an
annual attendance of 1000 or more
students. They are manned by
facul les whose regulations are as
broad as the state. To the west the
valley stretches toward Paluxy, and if
man ever saw 2 pretty scene this is one
field upon field OF grain, corn and cot
ton, with live oaks clustered here and
there to break the plalnlike mOnOtOnY.
But IS pen sketch will not do the sub
leCt Justice, ] will leave the matter to the
readers Imagination. Toward the south
Is COmanche peak, the sentinel of the
ages, and as look upon its solitary form
rising upward and upward, l think of
the red man who has rested beneath
it's shade, who has been guided in his
course by its loneliness, and who has
buried his dead nesr its eternal and solid
foundations. Toward the southeast
stretches the valley again amid which
meanders the river upon each side Of
which lie agricultural resources enough
AOA tCu ttlLlSs AL4GuF DCCB4G' u1lb l4lC
best of all this, 20 the emigrsnt, is the
fact that the land is cheap, timbeTed, well
watered end rich
Beneath lies Granbury, for whom n8-
ture has done great deal, and which
will be the prettiest town in Texas if
only it aids nature in the project just d
little. Soon one of Paddock's spider
legs will bind US to the Fort. We now
have national bank, which moves OF
with q buoyancy that speaks well for its
future. The railroad has some of the
pTettiest town lots | ever saw. They
sre level. with liveosks and mes
quite grass to set them of.
Those desiring TO live in q
small but thriving young city will do well
to come down snd examine this property.
Dey 4 Wynne are now building ice works,
SO that under the heat and excitement of
an upward rush we can keep cool. DR..
Abdill of the Fort is here to quiet our
teeth when they begin to ache from ner-
vousness brought on by excitement and
rapid change. We bid all to come and
see that what we say is true. We Will
close with three cheers for THE GAZETTE,
for Paddock and Fort Worth. GRAPsI.